Greg Rabidoux says Democrats need to stop tolerating political violence

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
No doubt about it. You look around the country and
where's all the violence happening. Usually it's going crazy and
democratically run cities because they're soft on crime. And that's
exactly what democrats need to stop doing, is tolerating all
of this political violence and hatred that's out there. It's
like they just step aside and going just go ahead
and do your protests. Take it up a notch. If

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you want to join us now to talk a little
bit more about this, Greg Robodo, who's an award winning
filmmaker and also an author and cultural commentator. Greg, welcome
back in thanks for being here.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
Thank you, sir. I will take, by the way, I
will take sixty and sunshine instead of like seventy eight
and rain. But man, okay, where are you. We're in
Myrtle Beach. Yeah, so normally it's really nice, but we've
been getting hit hard with sun excuse me, with the rain,
and my voice is getting shot because the punk count

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goes up and the voice the voice level tends to
go down when the pund count goes up. So I apologize,
I hear you. No, No, we're glad to have.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
What type of films do you do Greg just for
our audience sights.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
Yeah, yeah, so we do so for the last probably
seven years, we've been making documentary films. We have two films,
Stolen Babies of Spain and Letters to the Pope, which
are some of our most recent documentary films. They really
did great and we're really proud of them. They want
a lot of awards at the festivals. But now we're
really excited because they're available on Amazon Prime for I

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think a buck and then Fossome TV, which is a
streaming free streaming TV app roku to be things like that.
So they're available now. So we would love people to
watch and get back to us at bomb Off Films
and let us know. But we've also were moving into
We have a project we're working on right now which
is about true crime and yeah, an original script and

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an original script that I wrote which is based on
an actual incident in set of incidents around this area
in Myrtle Beach in South Carolina. We're working on that
as well. And then one more project we're working on
is a book and a film home about the radicalization
of campuses. Because you know, I've taught all a part
time for about the last twenty years, and then it
has changed dramatically over the last twenty years.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
Yeah, you know, when my kids were in school at
the University of Alabama. It's been over ten years since
Michael graduated, and even longer than that for my daughter Alex.
But both of them, they'd call me occasionally and say,
You're not going to believe the conversation that just took
place in our classroom and I'm like, what are you
talking about it? And be like, well, the professor, I mean,
they're pushing all this left agenda dat you know, somebody

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stood up and tried to introduce the other side of
the argument, and he kicked him out of the classroom.
I said, well, welcome to academia in America. And this
is what Charlie Kirk was all about, bringing these opinions.
You know, when Charlie went to college, He's like, Okay,
if this is where it's going leaning like this, I'm out.
I'm going to bring students together and we're going to
have both sides of the discussion and be cool about it. Now.

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And you talk about the radicalization the campuses since they graduated,
it's ramped up one hundred thousand percent since then. To
the point of on these campuses.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
No, you're You're absolutely right. And one of the things
that I do, which I'm not sure is always well
received by maybe the administrations of the places where I talk,
is I tell my students right away when I'm teaching
politics and film, because we talked about the politics of
film or just straight through politics, I say, of course
I have an opinion. Everybody has an opinion. Mine is irrelevant,

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and I will do my absolute, one hundred percent best
to never share it in class because it's irrelevant. I
want you, all, you know, to be thinking for yourselves.
You form your own opinions, you have, whatever opinions we want.
Only my only demand in the classes you support it,
be informed. But I said mine, you'll never hear about it,
and I tell you what I have to say. Honestly,

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it's like a breast of fresh air for so many
students will come up to me afterwards and say, you know,
kind of to the side, like, oh, you know, doctor Evane,
I'm so glad you said that, because in other classes
we can't even speak up, we can't even talk about
anything other than the really really left type stuff that
they push on it. And I said, I'm not here
to push anything. You're an a doubt, your form, your

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own opinion. And it's amazing to see. And the one
optimism that I'll share real quick is when you talk
to these students, so many of them, you know, students
today get you know, they get wrapped for a lot
of stuff. They're lazy, they just want to play video games.
It's this and that. I got to tell you, there's
a lot of students that are bright, they're smart, they

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want to get involved, but they have been scared. I'm
sure they have been intimidated because you know, they also
don't want to just get it like an immediate f right.
They don't want to get basically retaliated against by anybody
when they're going to school or voicing opinions or writing things,
or wanting to talk about things or share their voice
in a different way than a lot of other folks

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there want them to. And that's one of the things
we touch on where it's very strategic and you know
this very strategic of faculty. They will pick different universities
with different endowments, different f different population, very strategic for
their agenda. Like you know, for instance, we're seeing at
UNC for example, we're seeing it other Certainly, all the

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IVY leagues basically have a lot of foreign faculty, and
then you have domestic faculty that they're there because they
have a very specific agenda and many of them are
well connected to this kind of violent rhetoric and violence
per se. And that's that's not the learning process, that's
the indoctrination process.

Speaker 1 (05:28):
Well you mentioned, yeah, you mentioned these students get intimidated,
and I was going to say that, you know, beyond
that indoctrination is really what's happening is we see around
colleges now these kids are graduating and you look at
the young people's support for Mundani for instance, as socialist
running for mayor in New York City. You know, he's
gaining this support because these kids just left four years

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of indoctrination from the liberal left academia that's feeding all
this crap down their throat. And then they come out
and they turn on anything but Fox News, and it's
all about backing that whole thought up, like Okay, well
maybe this is how it should be. Okay, I'm on
board with a socialist, you know whoa I mean, we've
got to balance it out and have you know, people

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become aware of the pluses and minuses on both sides
of the aisle and make up your own mind based
on everything in all of the facts, not just one direction.
You look at anywhere in the world. Show me a
country that had success with socialism. Ask a college student
that when they're graduating, why are you on board with this?
Show me where it's been good, And they're like, oh, well,

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you know, so I got to tell you. I hope
and pray that you know, this country's swinging back from
where it's been for so long. But you know, seeing
a lot of what's going on around these campuses lately,
you know, with Charlie Kirk's you know, assassination and the
rejuvenation of christ and the rejuvenation of having you know,

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common sense discussions. Whether you're on this side of the
issue or that side of the issue, Let's have the
discussions at least and then walk away and make up
your own decision, like you said with your students, based
on what you want to research and find out then decide.
You know, the push from the liberal media in the
academia has just been insane lately. So well, congrats on

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all the success you're having Greg, and I'd love to
have you back. Man, I appreciate your thoughts on all this.

Speaker 2 (07:17):
Yeah, my pleasure well put. Thank you so much